They forgot I was still inside the prison and they locked it down for the night...
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They forgot I was still inside the prison and they locked it down for the night...
While I was alone inside.
I was 25, maybe 26, alone in the prison sallyport as all the lights turned off and the section of the prison where they held parole hearings emptied out.
All the prisoners had been taken back to their regular cells.
I stood on my tiptoes peeking out the tiny window on the locked prison door trying to see if the escort guard was walking over to get me yet.
Nothing.
In fact, the guard station looked completely empty.
(Oh, did I mention that you can't bring cellphones inside the prison? So I had no means of communicating with the outside world at all.)
Let's back up. Here's how it was supposed to work:
I, a new baby lawyer, signed in at the guard station when I got there that day for interviews and parole hearings.
My interviews that day went late and my client and I were the last ones on the unit. The unit guard radioed over to the guard station to "call for my ride"
(that's what they called the escort guard who would come get me from the sallyport and take me back to the guard station to sign back out).
Espinosa (yes, I still remember his name and face), radioed for my ride, locked me in the sallyport to wait, turned off all the lights, and took my client back to his regular cell. There was no one left on the unit.
I waited.
And waited.
It was taking much longer than usual. I couldn't see anyone coming from the guard station.
Panic started to set in.
My mind was racing. Would I actually be stuck here all night? What time would the guards come back in the morning? How long would it take before my husband realized something was wrong? Would he even think to call the prison or would he assume I was in a car accident instead?
WHAT IF I HAD TO PEE??!?
Then I heard something from behind me, back in the unit. A faint noise.
I walked back to the bars on that side of the sallyport and listened again.
Strangely, I hesitated.
But when I was sure I heard something, I yelled loud, "ESPINOSA?!"
"Shapiro?!?! You're still here?!?!"
The shock and concern in his voice was immediately noticeable.
He came and got me and walked me through the unit (something attorneys weren't allowed to do) and out to the guard station through areas of the prison I'd never seen.
It turned out that someone in the guard station hadn't noticed that not all of the attorneys had signed out for the day. They overlooked that blank signature spot. And left.
When Espinosa radioed for my ride, there was no one on the other end of the radio. There was no one in the guard station at all. But he didn't know that.
The next day, everyone had heard about it. The Sergeant--who I had a great relationship with--was PISSED.
Espinosa was pissed.
The prison had systems and safeguards in place so that things like this couldn't happen.
Weren't supposed to happen.
But it did. It happened to me.
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9 个月Oh my gosh how could they forget you were in there?!? Megan Shapiro, Esq.
This is cool Megan Shapiro, Esq. thanks for sharing ??
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9 个月Megan, what a remarkable recap!! The story of you getting locked in the prison is once in a lifetime lol????
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9 个月Amazing as always ??